Media A level- Thriller

 My group and I had a discussion to sort out the roles of the editing stages. Ollie- Editing clips and putting them together Jack- Organising clips, adding sound effects, finding music Oscar- Sound effects,  Tom- Getting rid of clips we don't need, editing clips, I organised the clips by numbering them and giving them brief descriptions of what each clip included, this made it much easier for my group to find the clips we were looking for and saved us a lot of time. I added the gunshot sounds by going onto YouTube and finding a non copywrited gunshot sound which we used.  We hope to get it all done by the 25th of May so we can have an opportunity to get feedback from our target audience where we will do a screening, meaning we will be able to improve our piece from the feedback we receive from our target audience. This also means that once we have completely finished it should match what our target audience wants to see.

 Tom and Oscar created a health and safety post for our group project.   Motor bikes  As there were multiple elements of our film that require us to extra take care in acting and filming our scenes. The first area we films that had potential area's of danger were the motor bike scenes. As there were two members of our acting cast that knew how to drive motorbikes and have high levels of experience we decided it would be the safest option to give them the roles of the characters who have to drive the bikes in the getaway chase.  This decision resulted in us having to give Ollie Blayne and Oli Newland to be the main protagonist and antagonist. As the motor bike scene looks best at relatively high speeds these two people had to be put forward for these two roles.  The props  As our props have a dangerous nature we made sure to handle them with extreme care and made sure they had as little involvement in the scene as possible. These pro...

Ollie- " In!" Ollie- " What you looking at?" Ollie- " Right, come here! Come!"  Jack- " We're next!" Oli N- " No, we're not going to let that happen." Ollie N- " Get the knife on the table". Jack- " What?" Oli N- " Get the knife!" Jack- " Quick, cut me! cut me!  ( Ollie enters back from killing Oscar) Jack- " Go, run!"  Ollie- " Oi!" Oli N- " Wait, wait please!" Ollie- " No, you've messed me around enough".

 

 

 When we uploaded all the clips onto the computer we had 82 clips, we didn't use all of them as there are some duplicates, clips that we don't need to use and some clips where we made mistakes therefore we cant use them.  My role of the editing process is to sort out all the clips that we will use and are not using, and also put the clips that we are using together cutting parts out of the clips that we don't need, to make our thriller more exciting to try and keep the audience interested.  As we are in a group of 4 we have split the editing roles between us Jack- Organising clips, editing clips, finding music, sound effects Ollie- Putting clips together, cutting clips, editing,  music,  Tom- Editing,  Oscar- Editing, We couldn't use this shot as the motorbike was misplaced and we didn't want it in the shot, but was accidentally put there. When we first started editing and got all our clips onto the computer we put small detailed descriptions in to make it ...

I did a prelim task, to test out and try camera angles that I could possibly use in my actual thriller, this prelim task gave me some experience and an idea of what it will be like when we film.  I realised that this prelim is quite bad, however it was just a start and from my research and watching other thrillers I now know what conventions I can include to make my thriller better. This prelim task was mainly done so I can compare my first ever experience of filming a sequence to my final one, therefore I can see what I have learnt and the differences between the two.